Dr. Debbie Treise is a professor in the Department of Advertising and the coordinator of the Science/Health Master’s track in the College of Journalism and Communications (CJC) at the University of Florida. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the American Academy of Advertising.

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Treise received her Ph.D. in 1992 from the University of Tennessee. She has raised more than $1.2 million in grants from NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center to study science communications. She has received grant funding from UF’s CTSI and serves as a member of the CTSI’s Executive Operations Committee for Health Communications Research. She was the CJC's first recipient of the University of Florida’s Research Faculty Fellowship in 1998, based on her research in science and health communication. She is the author of several book chapters, journal articles, conference presentations and national and international invited talks on science and health communications. She serves on the editorial board of several journals and serves on numerous industry, university, college and department committees.

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Dr. Treise's community service includes serving with the Hippodrome’s H.I.T.T program for at-risk youths and as an Angel Flight volunteer pilot. Professional affiliations include: the National Association of Science Writers, American Academy of Advertising, Association for Consumer Research, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, International Communications Association, Society for Consumer Psychology, Advances in Marketing and Health Care Research (treasurer), American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Association of Health Care Journalists, Association of Environmental Journalists.